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Kid Berwyn

(14,897 posts)
8. Very much appreciate the holistic approach.
Fri Dec 4, 2020, 10:17 AM
Dec 2020

He needs to be held to account for every single crime. He needs to be remembered for never having done anything in his life to serve humanity.

Writer Dan Benbow has created two resources filled with facts and sources.

Anatomy of a man-made disaster: Here are 595 hard facts about Trump’s abysmal COVID-19 response

Example: On February 1, 2018, the Washington Post reported that “CDC to cut by 80 percent efforts to prevent global disease outbreak” (7): “The global health section of the CDC was so drastically cut in 2018 that much of its staff was laid off (8) and the number of countries it was working in was reduced from 49 to merely 10. Meanwhile, throughout 2018, the U.S. Agency for International Development and its director, Mark Green, came repeatedly under fire from both the White House and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. (9) And though Congress has so far managed to block Trump administration plans to cut the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps by 40 percent (10), the disease-fighting cadres have steadily eroded as retiring officers go unreplaced.” (11)

and...

Anatomy of a man-made disaster: Here are 370 ways Donald Trump failed to keep us safe from the coronavirus

Example: In the second week of May, 2018, “the White House pushed Congress to cut funding for Obama-era disease security programs, proposing to eliminate $252 million in previously committed resources for rebuilding health systems in Ebola-ravaged Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea. (13) Under fire from both sides of the aisle, President Donald Trump dropped the proposal to eliminate Ebola funds a month later. But other White House efforts included reducing $15 billion in national health spending (14) and cutting the global disease-fighting operational budgets of the CDC, NSC, DHS, and HHS. (15) And the government’s $30 million Complex Crises Fund was eliminated. (16)

“The White House proposal ‘is threatening to claw back funding whose precise purpose is to help the United States be able to respond quickly in the event of a crisis,’ said Carolyn Reynolds, a vice president at PATH, a global health technology nonprofit.

Truth is the remedy for what ails America under Trumputin.



Personally, I’d start with treason.

One thing I won't pardon him on. [View all] Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 OP
Indeed!!!!! MyOwnPeace Dec 2020 #1
Projectionist is just another word for Hypocrite. Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #3
Yea..that's one thing Deuxcents Dec 2020 #2
Disgraced Gen. Flynn wants Agolf to declare martial law. Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #7
The one thing I won't forgive him for: panader0 Dec 2020 #4
Very much appreciate the holistic approach. Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #8
His criticism of Obama's golfing strayed into falsifiable territory Shermann Dec 2020 #5
Yeah, numbers count............... MyOwnPeace Dec 2020 #6
Please don't water the baloney. Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #10
THIS malaise Dec 2020 #9
Sooner be best. Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #11
Recommended. H2O Man Dec 2020 #12
"We're not going to control the pandemic ." -- Mark Meadows Kid Berwyn Dec 2020 #13
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